Example sentences of "been [noun pl] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than half the respondents , 54 per cent , said they had been readers for at least ten years and three quarters ( 76 per cent ) had been readers for five years . |
| 2 | They 'd been almost-friends for six years . |
| 3 | There have been problems with one or two areas but it has n't been a a a general problem . |
| 4 | There had previously been problems in 1938 in Bethnal Green , Limehouse and East Ham when many members became anti-German . |
| 5 | The accounts which local sign theorists have given of what might loosely be called the ‘ experience ’ of localisation have , in the main , been variations on three themes . |
| 6 | there have been experiments with 30 km/h zones in an attempt to win safety gains inexpensively . |
| 7 | From prehistoric times there have been fortifications of one sort or another on the great Rock which dominates the surrounding countryside , but the first records go back to the seventh century . |
| 8 | Paddy Monaghan and Ali have been pals since 1963 … when Paddy , furious that Ali had been stripped of his title for refusing to fight in Vietnam , gathered 22 thousand signatures . |
| 9 | Should a member wish to put forward a resolution for discussion at this meeting , is must be signed by not less than ten members of the National Trust who have been members since 1 January 1990 or earlier and must reach the Secretary at 36 Queen Anne 's Gate , London SW1H 9AS not later than 15 June . |
| 10 | Ukraine and Byelarus had been members since 1945 , the three Baltic states joined in September 1991 [ see p. 38458 ] , Russia assumed the Soviet Union 's seat in December [ see p. 38744 ] , and the eight joining on March 2 were Armenia , Azerbaijan , Kazakhstan , Kirgizstan , Moldova , Tajikistan , Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan . |
| 11 | They had been friends for two years , best friends Jessica might have said , with her formal , respectable private education in County Down , but some of their actions and their attitudes were miles apart , centuries , planets . |
| 12 | After all , they 've been friends for sixteen years , and have worked together for eleven of them … |
| 13 | They had been friends for eight long years , and now they had reached the parting of the ways . |
| 14 | ‘ We 'd been friends for 30 years but ‘ discovered ’ each other when Misia became a widow . |
| 15 | He and Botham have been friends for 20 years , and Chris says : ‘ He is a walking miracle . |
| 16 | Funnyman Eddie Large , who lives just a few miles away from The Price Is Right star , said : ‘ We 've been friends for 20 years and he 's one of the nicest men I know . |
| 17 | And they seem to have been scientists of one sort or another . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ But there have always been girls of eighteen , even in my day , ’ Sophia protested . |
| 19 | They have n't been champions for 26 years and it could be another 26 before they win it again . |
| 20 | The close attention which the union committee gave to every case of a girl being hired in the winter and spring months of 1910 argues that the recruitment had slowed to a trickle , as is borne out by an analysis by age of the sample in Chapter 6 : whereas large numbers of the women would have been 14-year-olds in 1908–9 , hardly any were younger than this . |
| 21 | In Moabit , for example , there have been falls of 57 per cent in fatal injuries , 45 per cent in severe injuries , 40 per cent in light injuries and a fall in accident costs of 16 per cent . |
| 22 | In the budget for 1992 announced on Jan. 20 , 1992 , spending on education had been increases by 19 per cent over the previous year . |
| 23 | Parish council chairman Peter Foster said there had been reports of one of two buses using the road following a ban on school buses , imposed by the county council after campaigning by residents . |
| 24 | ‘ There have been murderers aged ten , ’ said Pooley . |
| 25 | And er and although it nobody could ever say that the union was politically motivated er it it 's strange to relate that at union meeting when the general strike started and we of course we were n't in the T U C we were too small anyway , although I know that there 's been unions with twenty eight members in the T U C now . |